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जी मे आता है अभी
ज़ेब-ए-रकम कलम उठाऊ
क़िस्सा तमाम करु 
कश्मीर पर एटम बम
नागासाकी मे बहार
का ऐलान करू
पर क्या करू
ज़ेब पर एतबार नहीं
और आज एतवार भी तो नहीं

Achchabal Eyes



The Spring of tears has made my eyes an Achchabal,
a Mar, a Jhelum, [flowering] into the Dal.

~ Mathnavi-yi Kashmir, Dayaram Kachru ‘Khushdil’ (1743-1811) writing in Kabul.

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Picked Kashmir at Delhi Book Fair, 2015


Returned back after a gap of two years. Most of the works still the same old. But managed to find two…

Sarada and Takari Alphabets: Origin and Development 
by Bhushan Kumar Kaul Deambi, foreword by Walter Slaje
Year: 2008
Publisher: D.K. Printworld
Price: Rs. 900




Rasul Mir
by G.R. Malik
Sahitya Akademi
First Edition, 1990
 Rs. 15

Previously:

  1. Picked Kashmir at Delhi Book Fair, 2010
  2. Picked Kashmir at Delhi Book Fair, 2011
  3. Picked Kashmir at Delhi Book Fair, 2012
  4. Picked Kashmir at Delhi Book Fair, 2012 (Part 2)
  5. Picked Kashmir at Delhi Book Fair, 2013

shop in Ooty


The reach of Kashmiri traders never ceases to amaze me.

Kashmir House
Ooty
Handicraft shop

Tibetan Shop. In Ooty. The Himalayan neighbours of Kashmir. Another prolific moving/trading community.
 
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camp in Uri

Inside the army camp on entering Uri

Remains of 1947 war.

Female and Male
Markhor

Remains of the era when this area for famous among hunters.

Varah at Baramulla

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Gosain Teng

Baramulla bridge with Gosain Teng in background (with in Kaznag and Shamasabri ranges, an extension of the Pir Panjal Range). Illustration  published in ‘Church Missionary Intelligencer’ (1854).

Gosain Teng, Baramulla. ‘Teng’ is the Kashmiri word for ‘Hillock’ and ‘Gosain’ is the Hindi/Sanskrit Goswami meaning ‘Ascetic’. Nowadays atop the hill is an army bunker. According to entry for the place in Hasan Shah’s (1832-1898) ‘Tarikh-e-Hassan’ there are supposed to be four springs atop the hill. Kunds named after Ram, Sita, Lakshman and Hanuman.

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